By GustavoLeao / 15:27, 21 February 2012 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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Esquire posted a new interview with TOS actor George Takei and here is an excerpt.

ESQ: That's a great answer. They're shooting the second J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie.

GT: That's right. They've been shooting for a little over a month now.

ESQ: Do you have any involvement at all?

GT: No. I have no involvement. That's a frequently asked question, and right off the top, I assure people that this aging Sulu will not make an appearance. He's going to remain young. And look like John Cho.

ESQ: There's an interview with John Cho from a year or two ago, and he was just glowing about how big an influence you were on him.

GT: So many young Asian-Americans come up to me when I'm recognized in public, and say, you know, "You made me feel so proud — there you were as part of the leadership team on Star Trek, talking without an accent." And the credit for that really belongs to [creator] Gene Roddenberry. He coined the acronym IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. He said the crew of the Starship Enterprise was a metaphor for earth, and he wanted the crew to reflect that diversity. He deliberately cast the way he did.